Apparatus for steaming cloth.



. PATENTED JUNE 25, 1907. E. SBNKBEIL, APPARATUS FOR-STEAMING CLOTH.

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PATENTED JUNE 25, 1907.

B. SBNKBBII APPARATUS FOR STEAMING CLOTH.

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APPARATUS FOR STEAIVHNG CLOTH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed October 20, 1906. Serial No. 339,874.

T0 (0% whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMIL SENKBEIL, chief engineer, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Pankow, near Berlin, Florastrasse 86, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Steaming Cloth and the Like and'I do hereby declare, the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to improvements in apparatus for steaming cloth and the like and has for its object to make the apparatus more efiicient so that it can be used under all industrial conditions- In the well known presses for steaming cloth the latter is folded in layers upon a hollow table having a perforated top, whereupon the table with the cloth is pressed against a plate fixed above the table. As during the pressing and steaming the folds of the cloth are outside the press these parts are not steamed. Therefore it is necessary to take by hand the goods from the press, fold it otherwise on a separate table so that the previous folds now are in the midst of the layers of the cloth and then restore the cloth again into the press and steam it a second time. Thus the cloth being seized with the hands often becomes defective in some places and the output of the machine is diminished the whole 'manipulation bein circumstantial.

The present invention relates to an apparatus of the kind referred to in which the whole work is done without necessitating the cloth to be seized with the hands and more quickly than in the apparatus hitherto known.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows a sectional view of one embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 2 is asimilar view of a modification.

In Fig. 1 a is a steaming press of a well known type having a perforated top I) on a table I) carried by a piston A movable within a cylinder B by means of any fluid. Thus the cloth 0 folded in layers on the table top I) can be pressed in the usual way against a plate d fixed above the table on the frame of the press. Near the pressing table and preferably flush therewith a second table f is arranged for receiving the cloth 0 which is led over a roller 6 and folded in new layers on the said table f after the first treatment.

This table f is provided with IOllGIS g by which an endless carrier h of felt or similar material is guided over the tables I) and f so that this carrier really forms the top of the tables on which the cloth rests. At the end of the table I) the carrier h is guided over the driving roller 71, guide rollers 7c and over a second driving roller Z back to the table f. The cloth after being pressed and steamed in the usual way within the press a is then guided over the roller 6 and refolded on the table f. Then by rotating the driving roller i or Z or both the cloth is brought by the carrier h back to the table I) b and pressed and steamed a second time.

In the modification shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing a plurality of carriages w, w to is arranged for transporting the cloth from and into the press a. Each carriage consists of a frame v v 12 having a perforated top plate 19 19 p and supported by means of rollers on rails By this arrangement it is possible to refold the cloth 0 previously steamed on the carriage w within the press a on to the carriage w by guiding it over the rollers e e a, while at the same time a second cloth 6 is steamed in the press a on the carriage e0 As soon as this has been accomplished the carriage w emptied in the meantime is taken away from the rails and the carriage w moved on the prior'place of the carriage 'w whereupon the carriage 112 is moved into the press for treating the cloth 0 a second time. During this treatment of c the cloth 0 is refolded from the carriage w to the carriage w put in the meantime again on the rails at the prior place of the carriage 10 Thus it is possible to use the press continuously for steaming and it is obvious that the same may be done with the modification shown by Fig. 1, if a second refolding table is arranged on the side of the press opposite to the table f of Fig. 1, the endless carrier 71, of course then being guided over all tables.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention, and in what manner the same is to be per formed, I declare that what I claim is:

1. In apparatus for steaming cloth or the like the combination with a steaming press of a table for refolding the cloth and means for'moving the top of said table into and out of the press, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

2. In apparatus for steaming cloth or the like the combination with a steaming press of a table for refolding the cloth, a carrier for carrying the cloth from the press onto the table and vice versa and means for moving said carrier, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

3. In apparatus for steaming cloth or the like the combination with a steaming press of a plurality of tables for refolding the cloth and means for moving the tops of said tables into and out of the press alternatively, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

4. In apparatus for steaming cloth or the like the combination with a steaming press of a table for refolding the cloth on one side of the press, a second refolding table on the other side and means for moving the tops of said tables into and out of the press alternatively, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

5. In apparatus for steaming cloth or the like the combination with a steaming press of a table for refolding the cloth and carriages having perforated top plates and adapted to be moved into the press and on to the table alternatively, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth. by

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of tWo Witnesses.

EMIL SENKBEIL.

VVitnesses':

WOLDEMAR I-IAUPT, HENRY HASPER. 

